Archive for March 2024
Those who can still walk and smile
Océane Perona, published by Julliard, 2024, 147 pages Héloïse sleeps badly and drinks too much coffee. In her office at the Violences group, the days go by and the minutes of rape victims' interviews pile up on the table. Every day, Héloïse has the feeling that she's working her socks off for nothing, since most of her investigations...
Read MoreArticle ""Those who can still walk and smile" by sociologist Océane Perona: gendarmes and rapists "
In an article in Marie-Claire, Océane Perona presents her new book, "Celles qui peuvent encore marcher et sourire", published by Julliard. Based on her doctoral thesis, which looked at the role of consent in police rape investigations, this first novel plunges us into the day-to-day life of a police department, where...
Read MoreLoïc Le Pape welcomes CNRS delegation to Mesopolhis
Mesopolhis is pleased to welcome Loïc Le Pape as a CNRS delegate for 2023-2024 Loïc Le Pape is a lecturer in political science at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et science politique (CESSP, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS, EHESS). His research focuses on the interaction between the religious and political spheres...
Read MoreWhat role do victims play in climate trials? Testimonies and expert formalisations
Dossier in the latest issue of La Pensée écologique, 2023/1 (No. 10), p.1-3 A Mesopolhis and ANR PROCLIMEX project study day, organised in May 2022, led to the publication of a dossier in the latest issue of La Pensée écologique: "What place for victims in climate trials? Testimonies and expert formalisations". Christophe TRAÏNI , member of Mesopolhis,...
Read MoreInvestigating in an extremely depressed family environment. Epistemological and ethical issues in research on the island of Mahoran
By Pierre-Olivier WEISS, book chapter in Les savoirs de l'extrême. Médiation-appropriation en contextes, Editions des archives contemporaines, France, 2023, p. 19-40 Enquêter en terrain extrêmophile oblige une posture armée épistémologiquement et théoriquement mais contraint tout chercheur à la distanciation participante. Based on a survey of families living in Mayotte, whose particularity is their...
Read MoreTrans-Mediterranean mobility and migration. An Italian-French dialogue on movements in and across the Mediterranean
Sylvie Mazzella, "A critical approach to trans-Mediterranean migration. Perspectives de recherche Italo-françaises" in Mobilités et migrations trans-méditerranéennes, edited by Andrea Calabretta - Padova University Press, 2024, pp. 26-40 This volume brings together the work developed around the conference "Nouvelles mobilités et migrations trans-méditerranéennes", which took place in Padua on 4...
Read MorePlayful mediation: a new gap between the museum and its visitors?
By Nicolas Doduik, chapter in ENTRE LE JEU ET LE JOUEUR, Presses universitaires de Liège, 2023, p. 287-308 In the field of museums, professionals and observers generally consider that cultural content is never immediately accessible. It is precisely the role of 'cultural mediation' to add a mediating element between cultural content and its receivers in order to...
Read MoreLocal Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities - A view from post-apartheid South Africa
By Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, UCL Press, published 27 February 2024, 494 Pages Why are even progressive local authorities with the 'will to improve' seldom able to change cities? Why does it seem almost impossible to redress spatial inequalities, deliver and maintain basic services, elevate impoverished areas and protect the marginalised communities? Why do municipalities in...
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